Full Text of SR1738 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Dr. Quentin Young, who passed away on | 4 | | March 7, 2016 at the age of 92; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young, the son of immigrants, was born | 6 | | on September 5, 1923; he grew up on Chicago's South Side and | 7 | | graduated from Hyde Park High School; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young became a knowledgeable and | 9 | | sought-after physician, but also a passionate advocate for | 10 | | public health reform, civil rights, anti-poverty initiatives, | 11 | | workers' rights, and health care as a human right; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young served in the United States Army | 13 | | during World War II; he received a bachelor's degree from the | 14 | | University of Chicago and earned his degree in medicine from | 15 | | Northwestern University; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young began his medical training at | 17 | | Cook County Hospital and returned, after a stint at Michael | 18 | | Reese Hospital, to become its Chairman of Medicine; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Even as he sought to improve health care and | 20 | | social services in underserved areas of Chicago, Dr. Quentin |
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| 1 | | Young threw himself into the fight for civil rights wherever it | 2 | | was waged, registering African-American voters in Mississippi | 3 | | during the Freedom Summer, marching from Selma to Montgomery in | 4 | | 1965, founding the Medical Committee for Human Rights to | 5 | | provide health care to civil rights activists, campaign | 6 | | volunteers, and anti-war protesters, and demonstrating for the | 7 | | desegregation of public schools; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Though an accomplished physician and community | 9 | | leader, Dr. Quentin Young never let professional ambitions | 10 | | override an opportunity to do justice, as he was twice | 11 | | terminated from (then re-hired to) his administrative post at | 12 | | the Cook County Hospital as a result of disputes with its | 13 | | governing body, including over working conditions for young | 14 | | staff doctors; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young served as president of the | 16 | | Chicago Board of Health and the American Public Health | 17 | | Association and co-founded the Health and Medicine Policy | 18 | | Research Group; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young was a lifelong advocate for | 20 | | single-payer health care and continued to draw attention to | 21 | | this cause into his later years, including by walking 167 miles | 22 | | across Illinois in 2001 at the age of 77; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Among Dr. Quentin Young's well-known patients | 2 | | were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago Mayor Harold | 3 | | Washington, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Illinois Governor Pat | 4 | | Quinn, and President Barack Obama; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young's family members were partners | 6 | | with him in his activism, as he frequently took his five | 7 | | children with him to demonstrations and was accompanied by his | 8 | | wife Ruth on his march for universal health care; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young is lovingly remembered as a | 10 | | passionate, inspirational, energetic, and generous man whose | 11 | | legacy is a credit to Hyde Park, Chicago, and Illinois; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 14 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we, along with his | 15 | | family and friends, mourn the passing of Dr. Quentin Young; and | 16 | | be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of Dr. Quentin Young as an expression | 19 | | of our sympathy.
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